Spaceception Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 2 minutes, and mentioned a planned flip and burn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 T- 2 minutes. Prop load complete! T- 1 minute Past hold! Let's light this candle! Liftoff! Lost an engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Dang, the sound of the microphones giving up at the sound of the engines at lift-off. Oh, and one engine out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Max Q Hot staging! Ship is on its way! Boost back going well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Whoa, some light char-broiling of the top of the booster upon stage separation there. No explosions so far, that sounds ... uhh, not worse than the last time, at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Both sections are in space Staging ring is off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Nothing TOO exciting so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Booster coming in Cool views! Wow that's beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 It's so strange to see those vehicles calmly drifting through space ... and then you look at the telemetry readouts, and realize the booster is falling at approximately one kilometer per second, and Starship is accelerating at about one G. Landing burn, this could be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Landing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Reverse Sea-Dragon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Ship is in orbit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Holy Schneikies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Looks like chunks were coming off the booster. Nearly lost control too! Great to see it made the splashdown! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) Nominal orbit insertion, but there's still gas venting, seemingly erratically. Is this bad news? EDIT: rather large flakes are drifting away from Starship now, and it appears to be yawing quite a bit. That doesn't seem good to me. Edited June 6 by Codraroll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Also - no tumble. That landing burn was incredible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kartoffelkuchen Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Still quite a lot of venting on the Ship, interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 That was incredible! 1 engine out on landing, maybe some debris. But safe splashdown. Unsure if that meets their criteria for actually doing the catch on flight 5. It was going so fast towards the end, I thought for a moment or two that it wouldn't make it! Seeing the hot stage ring fly by at the last minute was pretty cool as well. Next up is attitude control, then entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) Imagine pulling the entire descent or ascent between ground and 30,000ft+ in an airliner in about ten seconds... Edited June 6 by cubinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Still no imagery from the ship. Still seeing telemetry though. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 The continued venting on the ship is interesting. I wonder if the short-term fix to the frozen RCS from IFT-3 was to just keep a slow vent through all gas thrusters during coast (similar to Centaur’s constant settling thrust) and thus avoid ice formation. Looks like Superheavy lost one perimeter engine on ascent and had one mid-ring engine relight failure during the landing burn. Notably that would have been the second relight for this engine; it turned off and restarted just fine during the boostback burn. Hard to speculate whether that might be physical damage from the overly aggressive re-entry (no entry burn makes it a lot hotter) or just general growing pains. Regardless, neither failure seemed to have any meaningful impact as both the ascent and the landing burn came off without a hitch. There did seem to be some debris coming up from the bottom during the landing burn though. Hard to know if that was impact or spalling off the water surface or overstressing of the structure. None of the engines showed problems so the debris might have been the strakes peeling off from a combination of aero forces and sudden acceleration. It looked like the booster actually executed a hover for a few moments there but it is hard to tell from that fisheye angle. Cautiously optimistic about survival of re-entry for Starship! Superheavy’s entry was obviously much more controlled this time around so if it was a thruster issue for IFT-3 then that should be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 minute ago, Ultimate Steve said: going so fast towards the end Oh yeah - watching the booster telemetry go from over 4,000 km/h at 20 km altitude to less than a thousand at 1km before lighting the rocket and then the hoover was amazing. The physicality of all that - wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Codraroll Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) In the meantime, this is a rather nice rendition of The Blue Danube, at least. Edited June 6 by Codraroll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 That still doesn't seem real, but they made the landing in one piece. I really hope they are able to release internal footage from the booster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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